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For Christians, water is both a necessarily fundamental ecological theme and also a spiritual symbol. These two perspectives are inseparable. Sharing water justice with wisdom is at the heart of environmental responsibility, and yet water is more than one natural resource among others: it evokes Christ himself who refers to himself as ‘living water’ and it evokes ways of new life, as in the sacrament of Baptism. Christian teaching has an immense range of references to the sacramental and symbolic dimensions founded in Scripture itself, evoked in the first theme. In the three following themes, this note will focus on the genre of more explicit ‘social teaching.’